| | Up to 10,000 people will be allowed at the Melbourne Cup at Flemington on Tuesday, November 2, and a live music event will be held at Sidney Myer Music Bowl on October 30. Victoria has recorded 1,890 new cases and five deaths. | | | A teenager tests positive to COVID-19 while in hotel quarantine after being on the same plane as a flight attendant with the virus who also travelled to Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne. | | | Changes making childcare cheaper are being brought forward to March so that families can access the support earlier — a plan that will cost the government $1.7 billion over three years — but what does it all mean for your family? | | | NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says Monday will be an "exciting day" as the state prepares to open up after months of being in lockdown. But he warned residents to be safe. | | | Australian mining billionaire Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest unveils plans to build the world's largest green energy hydrogen manufacturing facility in Central Queensland. | | | President Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will keep bolstering its defences to ensure nobody can force the island to accept the path China has laid down that offers neither freedom nor democracy. | | | If economists don't understand inflation very well, how can they prepare us for the future? | | | The Melbourne Cup racing carnival will be used to trial new technology as part of Victoria's move towards its "vaccinated economy". | | | Scientists in Australia and the UK are trying to determine which trees can soak up the most carbon out of the atmosphere with some surprising results. | | | Now in Adelaide, Zahra Samar hopes to again take to the air as a pilot after fleeing the Taliban when they violently targeted the academy she was training at in Afghanistan. | | | | | | Download the ABC News app | Available on Android and Apple devices | | The ABC NEWS app makes it easier for you to stay up to date with the latest news and information from Australia's most trusted news source. | | | | The ABC sent this message to wwwhindimen.australia@blogger.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC. Any personal details and data acquired by the ABC from your participation in any ABC Online Services will be used only in accordance with the ABC's Privacy Policy. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | | | | |